{"id":331025,"date":"2026-08-27T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:34:24","slug":"listen-to-hold-me-bat-boy-from-upcoming-bat-boy-the-musical-new-york-city-center-cast-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331025\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to ‘Hold Me, Bat Boy’ From Upcoming Bat Boy: The Musical (New York City Center Cast Recording)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City Center<\/a>\u00a0Gala production of Bat Boy<\/a>: The Musical,\u00a0which played the Manhattan\u00a0venue October 29\u2013November 8, 2025, was recorded in April 2026 and will be released in digital and streaming formats August 28 by Ghostlight Records and Yellow Sound Label.<\/p>\n

Playbill has a first listen to the opening number, “Hold Me, Bat Boy,” which can be heard above and features\u00a0Gabi Carrubba<\/a>, Andrew Durand<\/a>, John-Michael Lyles<\/a>, Olivia Puckett<\/a>, Keythe Farley<\/a>, Brian Flemming<\/a>, and Laurence O\u2019Keefe. A\u00a0CD ofBat Boy: The Musical\u00a0(New York City Center Cast Recording) will be released later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bat Boy features a score by Tony nominee O\u2019Keefe and a\u00a0book by Farley and Flemming.
\n This new album features several new songs by the original creators, and expanded
\norchestrations for 12\u00a0musicians by O\u2019Keefe and Ben Green<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The recording is produced by Michael Croiter<\/a>, O\u2019Keefe, Andrew Resnick<\/a>, and Jenny Gersten<\/a>, with executive producers Ben Simpson, Patrick Catullo<\/a>, LD Entertainment<\/a>, and Nancy Gibbs<\/a>, and co-producers Aleff Productions<\/a> and Adam Zell<\/a>. Pre-order or pre-save the album by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The cast features\u00a0Kerry Butler<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Meredith Parker, Carrubba\u00a0as\u00a0Shelley Parker,\u00a0 Durand\u00a0as\u00a0Rick Taylor, Mary Faber<\/a> as\u00a0Lorraine, Alan H Green<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Bud, Evan Harrington<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Ned, Lyles\u00a0as\u00a0Ron Taylor<\/a>\/Rancher, Tom McGowan<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Sheriff Reynolds, Jacob Ming-Trent<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Reverend Hightower, Alex Newell<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0The God Pan, Puckett\u00a0as\u00a0Ruthie Taylor\/Rancher, Marissa Rosen<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Daisy, Christopher Sieber<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Dr. Parker, Taylor Trensch<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Bat Boy, Colin Trudell<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Charley, Rema Webb<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Maggie, and\u00a0Tony winner\u00a0Marissa Jaret Winokur<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Mrs. Taylor<\/a>, in addition to August Bagg, Will Mann<\/a>, and Stephanie Reuning-Scherer. <\/p>\n

Inspired by a popular tabloid article from the 1990s, the\u00a0musical gained cult classic status when it premiered Off-Broadway in 2001.<\/p>\n

The musical follows Bat Boy, also known as Edgar, who is discovered\u00a0in a cave and adopted by a local West Virginia family. He\u00a0wants nothing more than to be accepted by
\n his new community and works hard to appeal to their \u201cChristian
\nCharity.\u201d But will his insatiable bloodlust be his undoing?<\/p>\n

New York City Center\u2019s Gala production was directed by two-time Tony winner Alex Timbers<\/a>, with music direction by Andrew Resnick and choreography by Connor Gallagher<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Center\u00a0Gala production of Bat Boy: The Musical,\u00a0which played the Manhattan\u00a0venue October 29\u2013November 8, 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-331025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}